Documentary Film Director

Alexandra Liveris is a documentary film director and story consultant who helms the creative vision of Poet Tree Pictures. Her work sits at the intersection of personal healing and collective transformation and involves care, consent, and collaboration with film participants as a pathway to ethical storytelling. For two decades, she has been welcomed into homes to co-create stories around sensitive subjects — from the refugee crisis on a Greek island to women entrepreneurs across the Middle East to a high-stakes Alzheimer’s trial in California. She is currently co-directing Natura, a feature documentary about the emotional landscape of climate change, filmed across five countries in collaboration with National Geographic photographer Nichole Sobecki and produced by Insignia Films, three-time Emmy and Peabody Award–winning producers.

Her films have screened in over 150 U.S. cities and internationally at major festivals and retrospectives. Eyes of Exodus won the Jury Award at Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, the Audience Award at Aspen ShortsFest and the Vimeo Staff Pick “Best of the Month”, and was optioned for a feature adaptation by Faliro House. Nocturnity premiered in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival and was featured by Indiewire, Complex Magazine and Deadline Hollywood. “Santiago Calatrava” premiered at DocNYC, Nowness and the Prague City Gallery. She has created projects for Google Creative Lab that reached over 18 million viewers in their first week online; collaborated with visionary artists across music and film in South Africa, Mexico, Australia, and Saudi Arabia; and spent a year in the field directing with one of her environmental heroes, Academy Award–winning director Louie Psihoyos.

She has an extensive background at the nexus of storytelling and social impact. She started her career at 18 as an advisor to the Australian Mission at the United Nations. At 22 she was the youngest story producer for the “Charlie Rose Show”, producing episodes on world leaders and current affairs. At 25 she co-founded the Rethink Refugees program for the Clinton Global Initiative. She went on to produce an educational program for National Geographic; receive an MFA in Documentary Film from Stanford University, the Flaherty Film Seminar Fellowship, the Stanford Graduate School of Business Ignite Fellowship. She seeded her passion for this work with a BA in International Relations from Tufts University, with a specialization in Foreign Policy.

Story Consultant

Alexandra works with creatives, philanthropists and individuals to shape sensitive social issue topics into trauma-informed media. → Story Consultancy

Poet Tree Collective

Poet Tree Collective is where you can find the heart of Alexandra’s storytelling and healing methodology and practices.